I was wondering if its possible to get rid of the majority of every negative human emotion ever.
I know for sure that I got rid of depression and anger, but can I take others down with it?
Plus, I'm still young and I'm not old and depressed like you guys ;D
Well, no, because emotions are part of being human; the good AND the bad.
The name of the game is balance and self-regulation. It isn't healthy to bottle sadness or anger when it is an appropriate natural response to an event or phenomenon. By that same token, it isn't healthy to wallow in horror and woe.
And I'm old AND as fucking happy as can be.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 05, 2012, 01:21:57 AM
Well, no, because emotions are part of being human; the good AND the bad.
The name of the game is balance and self-regulation. It isn't healthy to bottle sadness or anger when it is an appropriate natural response to an event or phenomenon. By that same token, it isn't healthy to wallow in horror and woe.
And I'm old AND as fucking happy as can be.
That's the golden rule im trying to break! Fuck the balance! Humans dont actually NEED to be sad or angry, and either way it doesnt satisfy any needs whatsoever! In fact, I dont even want to be human anymore! I want to go BEYOND HUMAN, and this is the way im gonna do it ;D
Quote from: cris on September 05, 2012, 01:04:37 AM
I was wondering if its possible to get rid of the majority of every negative human emotion ever.
I know for sure that I got rid of depression and anger, but can I take others down with it?
Plus, I'm still young and I'm not old and depressed like you guys ;D
Maybe...but WHY?
Quote from: cris on September 05, 2012, 01:46:27 AM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 05, 2012, 01:21:57 AM
Well, no, because emotions are part of being human; the good AND the bad.
The name of the game is balance and self-regulation. It isn't healthy to bottle sadness or anger when it is an appropriate natural response to an event or phenomenon. By that same token, it isn't healthy to wallow in horror and woe.
And I'm old AND as fucking happy as can be.
That's the golden rule im trying to break! Fuck the balance! Humans dont actually NEED to be sad or angry,
:crankey:
Quote from: cris on September 05, 2012, 01:46:27 AM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 05, 2012, 01:21:57 AM
Well, no, because emotions are part of being human; the good AND the bad.
The name of the game is balance and self-regulation. It isn't healthy to bottle sadness or anger when it is an appropriate natural response to an event or phenomenon. By that same token, it isn't healthy to wallow in horror and woe.
And I'm old AND as fucking happy as can be.
That's the golden rule im trying to break! Fuck the balance! Humans dont actually NEED to be sad or angry, and either way it doesnt satisfy any needs whatsoever! In fact, I dont even want to be human anymore! I want to go BEYOND HUMAN, and this is the way im gonna do it ;D
Why this assumption that emotions are positive or negative at all? And even if it were the case, wouldn't going beyond human require to move past all human emotion?
Of course there is no "beyond human".
Quote from: A.N. Other on September 05, 2012, 02:09:44 AM
Quote from: cris on September 05, 2012, 01:46:27 AM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 05, 2012, 01:21:57 AM
Well, no, because emotions are part of being human; the good AND the bad.
The name of the game is balance and self-regulation. It isn't healthy to bottle sadness or anger when it is an appropriate natural response to an event or phenomenon. By that same token, it isn't healthy to wallow in horror and woe.
And I'm old AND as fucking happy as can be.
That's the golden rule im trying to break! Fuck the balance! Humans dont actually NEED to be sad or angry, and either way it doesnt satisfy any needs whatsoever! In fact, I dont even want to be human anymore! I want to go BEYOND HUMAN, and this is the way im gonna do it ;D
Why this assumption that emotions are positive or negative at all?
The positive one are the ones I like and the negative ones are the ones I dont like ;D
Quote from: cris on September 05, 2012, 01:46:27 AM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 05, 2012, 01:21:57 AM
Well, no, because emotions are part of being human; the good AND the bad.
The name of the game is balance and self-regulation. It isn't healthy to bottle sadness or anger when it is an appropriate natural response to an event or phenomenon. By that same token, it isn't healthy to wallow in horror and woe.
And I'm old AND as fucking happy as can be.
That's the golden rule im trying to break! Fuck the balance! Humans dont actually NEED to be sad or angry, and either way it doesnt satisfy any needs whatsoever! In fact, I dont even want to be human anymore! I want to go BEYOND HUMAN, and this is the way im gonna do it ;D
Human suffering is a necessary part of our character. We were shaped by evolution. We became what we are out of struggle. Problems lead to progress.
Besides that as a musician, I have to say all the best music comes partially out of anger and sadness. Otherwise all the stuff you write is really irritating pop music about love and how awesome life is. You know what that sounds suspiciously like? Christian music. And who the fuck wants to listen to that shit?
Quote from: cris on September 05, 2012, 02:22:32 AM
Quote from: A.N. Other on September 05, 2012, 02:09:44 AM
Quote from: cris on September 05, 2012, 01:46:27 AM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 05, 2012, 01:21:57 AM
Well, no, because emotions are part of being human; the good AND the bad.
The name of the game is balance and self-regulation. It isn't healthy to bottle sadness or anger when it is an appropriate natural response to an event or phenomenon. By that same token, it isn't healthy to wallow in horror and woe.
And I'm old AND as fucking happy as can be.
That's the golden rule im trying to break! Fuck the balance! Humans dont actually NEED to be sad or angry, and either way it doesnt satisfy any needs whatsoever! In fact, I dont even want to be human anymore! I want to go BEYOND HUMAN, and this is the way im gonna do it ;D
Why this assumption that emotions are positive or negative at all?
The positive one are the ones I like and the negative ones are the ones I dont like ;D
That's all very well and good to tell me how you define positive and negative. This does not tell me why.
And, as Rev. What's-His-Name? said, there isn't anything "beyond human." We don't have any dogs that are beyond dogs or cars beyond cars. Changing temperament doesn't make one better or superhuman. If that's the case, the Stoics have us beat by years.
Quote from: A.N. Other on September 05, 2012, 03:39:03 AM
Quote from: cris on September 05, 2012, 02:22:32 AM
Quote from: A.N. Other on September 05, 2012, 02:09:44 AM
Quote from: cris on September 05, 2012, 01:46:27 AM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 05, 2012, 01:21:57 AM
Well, no, because emotions are part of being human; the good AND the bad.
The name of the game is balance and self-regulation. It isn't healthy to bottle sadness or anger when it is an appropriate natural response to an event or phenomenon. By that same token, it isn't healthy to wallow in horror and woe.
And I'm old AND as fucking happy as can be.
That's the golden rule im trying to break! Fuck the balance! Humans dont actually NEED to be sad or angry, and either way it doesnt satisfy any needs whatsoever! In fact, I dont even want to be human anymore! I want to go BEYOND HUMAN, and this is the way im gonna do it ;D
Why this assumption that emotions are positive or negative at all?
The positive one are the ones I like and the negative ones are the ones I dont like ;D
That's all very well and good to tell me how you define positive and negative. This does not tell me why.
And, as Rev. What's-His-Name? said, there isn't anything "beyond human." We don't have any dogs that are beyond dogs or cars beyond cars. Changing temperament doesn't make one better or superhuman. If that's the case, the Stoics have us beat by years.
BALLS.
I am beyond human...and I hope YOU are, too!
Quote from: cris on September 05, 2012, 01:04:37 AM
I was wondering if its possible to get rid of the majority of every negative human emotion ever.
I know for sure that I got rid of depression and anger, but can I take others down with it?
Plus, I'm still young and I'm not old and depressed like you guys ;D
Nope.
All negative human emotions are part of our survival repertoire.
Quote from: A.N. Other on September 05, 2012, 03:39:03 AM
Quote from: cris on September 05, 2012, 02:22:32 AM
Quote from: A.N. Other on September 05, 2012, 02:09:44 AM
Quote from: cris on September 05, 2012, 01:46:27 AM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 05, 2012, 01:21:57 AM
Well, no, because emotions are part of being human; the good AND the bad.
The name of the game is balance and self-regulation. It isn't healthy to bottle sadness or anger when it is an appropriate natural response to an event or phenomenon. By that same token, it isn't healthy to wallow in horror and woe.
And I'm old AND as fucking happy as can be.
That's the golden rule im trying to break! Fuck the balance! Humans dont actually NEED to be sad or angry, and either way it doesnt satisfy any needs whatsoever! In fact, I dont even want to be human anymore! I want to go BEYOND HUMAN, and this is the way im gonna do it ;D
Why this assumption that emotions are positive or negative at all?
The positive one are the ones I like and the negative ones are the ones I dont like ;D
That's all very well and good to tell me how you define positive and negative. This does not tell me why.
And, as Rev. What's-His-Name? said, there isn't anything "beyond human." We don't have any dogs that are beyond dogs or cars beyond cars. Changing temperament doesn't make one better or superhuman. If that's the case, the Stoics have us beat by years.
Read Seneca's letters to a stoic.
I'm onto the 100th or so, and can safely say I'm completely immunised against stoicism
As a general comment, the emotions aren't inherently good or bad but you can develop a better control of how they impact your life. And should, otherwise, you know. Burger rage.
All emotion is negative emotion, surrender yourself to logic.
Quote from: Faust on September 05, 2012, 09:29:32 AM
All emotion is negative emotion, surrender yourself to logic.
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender...
Quote from: cris on September 05, 2012, 01:04:37 AM
I was wondering if its possible to get rid of the majority of every negative human emotion ever.
I know for sure that I got rid of depression and anger, but can I take others down with it?
Plus, I'm still young and I'm not old and depressed like you guys ;D
Depression is not an emotion, it is a chemical imbalance in the brain, that can be caused by physical and emotional problems.
Have you really gotten rid of anger of have you learnt to minize the negative effects it has on your life by accepting your anger, analyizing it and getting over it in a split second?
Big difference there, because afaik it is quite impossible to actually get rid of anger altogether. You still are angry but you are either bottling it up or expressing it in a different way.
An unexamined emotion is a lingering and rotting emotion.
The only other route to an anger-less life i know of is to distort your worldview to the point where you are unable to see bad things. This is silly.
With the stipulation that I have given serious answers to the OP, I'm 99% certain the OP is unserious.
I took it as more of a challenge...
Quote from: cris on September 05, 2012, 01:04:37 AM
I know for sure that I got rid of depression and anger,
You
sure you want to test that theory?
to the OP: How would you even know happy if it wasn't for its opposite, sad? To try to put everything happy would be like trying to remove only the right side of a stick. You chop it off and immediately a new right side appears. Supposing you do make everything happy, eventually you'll have a new set of criteria on which to draw the distinction.
Don't let me stop you, however. Do give it a try and share with us your results :)
Quote from: :regret: on September 05, 2012, 12:16:23 PM
Quote from: cris on September 05, 2012, 01:04:37 AM
I was wondering if its possible to get rid of the majority of every negative human emotion ever.
I know for sure that I got rid of depression and anger, but can I take others down with it?
Plus, I'm still young and I'm not old and depressed like you guys ;D
Depression is not an emotion, it is a chemical imbalance in the brain, that can be caused by physical and emotional problems.
Have you really gotten rid of anger of have you learnt to minize the negative effects it has on your life by accepting your anger, analyizing it and getting over it in a split second?
Big difference there, because afaik it is quite impossible to actually get rid of anger altogether. You still are angry but you are either bottling it up or expressing it in a different way.
An unexamined emotion is a lingering and rotting emotion.
The only other route to an anger-less life i know of is to distort your worldview to the point where you are unable to see bad things. This is silly.
That's exactly what happened, every problem ive encountered so far in my life has either been sloved, ignored, or I took advantage of it instead of carrying it like a burden :D Also, I like corrupting my worldview cause its fucking fun.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 05, 2012, 01:17:55 PM
I took it as more of a challenge...
Quote from: cris on September 05, 2012, 01:04:37 AM
I know for sure that I got rid of depression and anger,
You sure you want to test that theory?
If you kill my parents its not gonna work, im just gonna die of hunger.
Quote from: Bu☆ns on September 05, 2012, 04:10:02 PM
to the OP: How would you even know happy if it wasn't for its opposite, sad? To try to put everything happy would be like trying to remove only the right side of a stick. You chop it off and immediately a new right side appears. Supposing you do make everything happy, eventually you'll have a new set of criteria on which to draw the distinction.
Don't let me stop you, however. Do give it a try and share with us your results :)
I get disappointed as fuck when I drop my ice cream cone, so I base all happiness on that ;D
Oh boy I can't wait for all the psychological problems to start rolling in ;D
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 05, 2012, 12:23:09 PM
With the stipulation that I have given serious answers to the OP, I'm 99% certain the OP is unserious.
Just sayin.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 06, 2012, 12:26:54 AM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 05, 2012, 12:23:09 PM
With the stipulation that I have given serious answers to the OP, I'm 99% certain the OP is unserious.
Just sayin.
OP is serious, he dont need no human emotions ;D
Quote from: cris on September 06, 2012, 12:37:58 AM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 06, 2012, 12:26:54 AM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 05, 2012, 12:23:09 PM
With the stipulation that I have given serious answers to the OP, I'm 99% certain the OP is unserious.
Just sayin.
OP is serious, he dont need no human emotions ;D
Join the libertarian party. They have no emotions. Or brains, for that matter. It's just this echoing void in which you can occasionally hear the groans of starving children.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 06, 2012, 12:44:49 AM
Quote from: cris on September 06, 2012, 12:37:58 AM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 06, 2012, 12:26:54 AM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 05, 2012, 12:23:09 PM
With the stipulation that I have given serious answers to the OP, I'm 99% certain the OP is unserious.
Just sayin.
OP is serious, he dont need no human emotions ;D
Join the libertarian party. They have no emotions. Or brains, for that matter. It's just this echoing void in which you can occasionally hear the groans of starving children.
Libertarians are boring, the party im in has tons of brains, no emotions, and you can hear the laughter of children with glass jamed into their faces.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 06, 2012, 01:22:41 AM
Quote from: cris on September 06, 2012, 12:37:58 AM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 06, 2012, 12:26:54 AM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 05, 2012, 12:23:09 PM
With the stipulation that I have given serious answers to the OP, I'm 99% certain the OP is unserious.
Just sayin.
OP is serious, he dont need no human emotions ;D
Or friends?
Kids these days are awesome enough to become friends with the spiritually extraordinary OP ;D
;D
It's still a mystery to me how cris doesn't get bullied. Too happy and different. We would've shown no mercy.
Quote from: Chaser on September 06, 2012, 02:29:35 PM
It's still a mystery to me how cris doesn't get bullied. Too happy and different. We would've shown no mercy.
Different cultures. We have our own triggers that set off the BURN TEH NOOB reflex, and Cris doesn't set off those triggers.
Im going to mention that cris is latino so he posts that gif he always posts when someone mentions he latino.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 06, 2012, 02:54:48 PM
Quote from: Chaser on September 06, 2012, 02:29:35 PM
It's still a mystery to me how cris doesn't get bullied. Too happy and different. We would've shown no mercy.
Different cultures. We have our own triggers that set off the BURN TEH NOOB reflex, and Cris doesn't set off those triggers.
Those are called happy disturbances ;D
They are a disturbance of happiness that temporarily fries your triggers.
Only the most extraordinary people have this skill
(http://www.fizzygrizzly.com/forum/images/smilies/fggif9.gif)
Christ, it's like textual masturbation
Quote from: Bu☆ns on September 07, 2012, 02:29:02 AM
Christ, it's like textual masturbation
Meh, I give cris a break because s/he (little fuzzy there on specifics) is a kid, and did a toast themed Othello cartoon.
Did you ever get that back? I want to see it so bad!
interest piqued
I don't care if this is an infant, there's no excuse for saying shit that's THAT dumb. And there's even less excuse for putting that stupid fucking emoticon in every post.
I'd start yelling at it to SHUT THE FUCK UP but I'm 99% certain it's just :troll:
Quote from: Chaser on September 06, 2012, 02:29:35 PM
It's still a mystery to me how cris doesn't get bullied. Too happy and different. We would've shown no mercy.
Well, because, and I realise this may come as something of a surprise, PD is actually somewhat more civilized than your high school gym class.
Quote from: Cain on September 07, 2012, 08:31:58 AM
Quote from: Chaser on September 06, 2012, 02:29:35 PM
It's still a mystery to me how cris doesn't get bullied. Too happy and different. We would've shown no mercy.
Well, because, and I realise this may come as something of a surprise, PD is actually somewhat more civilized than your high school gym class.
I meant IRL.
Well, because, and I realise this may come as something of a surprise, IRL is actually somewhat more civilized than your high school gym class.
Quote from: Cain on September 07, 2012, 08:52:58 AM
Well, because, and I realise this may come as something of a surprise, IRL is actually somewhat more civilized than your high school gym class.
And, somehow, that just made me feel better about humanity.
Except for cris, there's no diff.
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on September 07, 2012, 07:38:50 AM
I don't care if this is an infant, there's no excuse for saying shit that's THAT dumb. And there's even less excuse for putting that stupid fucking emoticon in every post.
I'd start yelling at it to SHUT THE FUCK UP but I'm 99% certain it's just :troll:
You mad ;D
Quote from: Freeky Queen of DERP on September 07, 2012, 06:25:28 AM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on September 07, 2012, 02:29:02 AM
Christ, it's like textual masturbation
Meh, I give cris a break because s/he (little fuzzy there on specifics) is a kid, and did a toast themed Othello cartoon.
Did you ever get that back? I want to see it so bad!
My teacher liked it too much and never gave it back D:
I think the key is to recognize, accept and then dismiss the 'negative' emotions (quotes to show its a lable, not a TRUE descriptor). Anger, disappointment, depression, sadness etc. can be necessary moments in life, overcoming them doesn't mean completely eschewing them, but rather not dragging them around with you like some piece of extra luggage you tried to get through baggage check but the dude at the counter wanted an extra $75 to put it on the plane. I mean, you never know when you're gonna be stuck with flight delays, or have to change gates at the last minute... or run through the Istanbul airport at full speed to make your connecting flight.
That extra piece of luggage quickly defines the whole experience. Let that shit go!
Quote from: Cain on September 07, 2012, 08:52:58 AM
Well, because, and I realise this may come as something of a surprise, IRL is actually somewhat more civilized than your high school gym class.
:eek:
Quote from: Cain on September 07, 2012, 08:52:58 AM
Well, because, and I realise this may come as something of a surprise, IRL is actually somewhat more civilized than your high school gym class.
I dont know how, but my highschool gym class is actually pretty civilized.
How did this happen .-.
Hiya, I'm new and going to propose my solution( or trolling, whichever you choose to call it :here was supposed to be a smiley, but the number of weird smileys discouraged me, so you get ASCII instead XD: ) :
Join the Robot Overlords Slave federation,
If you are good, then maybe they'll let you have their Dalek V.5 or Cyberman V.1 upgrade for human primitives... OR, even better, the Toaster Of Doom upgrade !!!
More seriously ( even thought this forum doesn't exactly invite serious thought... or at least the no-nonsense manner most attractive in our current societies :eek: )
It's true that all emotions seem to be necessary for a balanced psyche, even for an unbalanced one !!!
as advice goes..., I think you should just do like Me(K), when you get angry, depressed, or any other of those emotions you interpret as "negative", ...put all the fault on one of your newly invented P.I's ( parallel identities...a Schizo's personalities, if you have to say it the hard way :cry:) and take it out on them before the emotion even reaches your eterior features !!!
I am not to blame if you experience the Alien Hand syndrome and your left hand( it's ALWAYS the left hand!!!!!!!!) tries to tickle or strangle you to dead...
Fake PS ( or FPS, as I'm now gonna call it in all my posts, possibly to the confusion of all gamers who happen to cross it's path): Ever heard of the rumor that people who use more than three exclamation points are mad? :evil:
Feck off like, ye fookin wanker.
Quote from: Pbock on September 14, 2012, 07:36:36 AM
Hiya, I'm new and going to propose my solution( or trolling, whichever you choose to call it :here was supposed to be a smiley, but the number of weird smileys discouraged me, so you get ASCII instead XD: ) :
Join the Robot Overlords Slave federation,
If you are good, then maybe they'll let you have their Dalek V.5 or Cyberman V.1 upgrade for human primitives... OR, even better, the Toaster Of Doom upgrade !!!
More seriously ( even thought this forum doesn't exactly invite serious thought... or at least the no-nonsense manner most attractive in our current societies :eek: )
It's true that all emotions seem to be necessary for a balanced psyche, even for an unbalanced one !!!
as advice goes..., I think you should just do like Me(K), when you get angry, depressed, or any other of those emotions you interpret as "negative", ...put all the fault on one of your newly invented P.I's ( parallel identities...a Schizo's personalities, if you have to say it the hard way :cry:) and take it out on them before the emotion even reaches your eterior features !!!
I am not to blame if you experience the Alien Hand syndrome and your left hand( it's ALWAYS the left hand!!!!!!!!) tries to tickle or strangle you to dead...
Fake PS ( or FPS, as I'm now gonna call it in all my posts, possibly to the confusion of all gamers who happen to cross it's path): Ever heard of the rumor that people who use more than three exclamation points are mad? :evil:
Barvo. Barvo!
Quote from: Pbock on September 14, 2012, 07:36:36 AM
I am not to blame if you experience the Alien Hand syndrome and your left hand( it's ALWAYS the left hand!!!!!!!!) tries to tickle or strangle you to dead...
My alien hand just faps all the time. Like, you know,
right now.